Kutchisiren

Kutchisiren; Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Sirenia
Family:	Dugongidae
Subfamily:	Dugonginae
Genus:	Kutchisiren; Bajpai et al., 2010
Species
	K. cylindrica Bajpai et al., 2010 (type);

Kutchisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India during the Miocene period.^[1] It was named by S. Bajpai, D. P. Domning, D. P. Das, J. Velez-Juarbe, and V. P. Mishra in 2010, and the type species is Kutchisiren cylindrica. It was originally named Kotadasiren gracilis (as a nomen nudum) in 1994, by Das and Basu.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b S. Bajpai; D. P. Domning; D. P. Das; J. Velez-Juarbe; V. P. Mishra (2010). "A new fossil sirenian (Mammalia, Dugonginae) from the Miocene of India". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 258 (1): 39–50. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0082.

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[Bajpai_et_al.-1] S. Bajpai; D. P. Domning; D. P. Das; J. Velez-Juarbe; V. P. Mishra (2010). "A new fossil sirenian (Mammalia, Dugonginae) from the Miocene of India". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 258 (1): 39–50. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0082.

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